"Civil liberties and all that"

The other day I meant to add this to the "Other Austin Badon facts" but couldn't find the quote anywhere. Today, I was helpfully reminded of this WCBF post from 2009 where we learned that then-mayoral candidate Badon wants to have your door kicked in.

We are officially living in a war zone.
Eastern New Orleans mayoral hopeful Rep. Austin Badon raised eyebrows last night with a call for a new Stazi-style approach to crime fighting, telling a roomful of District B voters that if he is elected mayor they will see “the NOPD kicking in at least four doors a day.”

The line appeared to stun many in the audience of uptown neighborhood leaders who had come to hear Badon, many of them for the first time. Upon reading furrowed brows, Badon quickly added that he would not lose track of “civil liberties and all that” and pointed out in a style reminiscent of police chief Warren Riley that most of the violence in the city was between “thugs and drug dealers killing each other off.”